Crews working across our service territory have digger trucks, bucket trucks and bulldozers stuck in the mud. This is slowing down the restoration process. With the muddy conditions, it is taking our crews two to three times longer to maintain and restore power. As we transition to the afternoon we are finding more and more downed poles in our system; we are now estimating that we have approximately 2,000 downed poles.
As our crews dig deeper into areas affected by outages, we are beginning to learn more about the devastation caused by this weekend’s storm. We’ve learned that southwest Kearny and southeast Hamilton counties were completely crippled by this weekend’s storm. We will not be able to address the needs of this area until the arrival of additional line crews and materials. Unfortunately, restoration in this area may take up to 10 days.
We encourage our members to please be safe and continue to report any downed poles and outages to 888-551-4140 or 620-424-4612